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Field trip for black students in Mich. draws anger Jeff Karoub, Associated Press, May 5, 2010 DETROIT — A school district is defending its intentions but reviewing its policies after a field trip by African-American elementary students to meet a University of Michigan rocket scientist drew complaints from excluded children and their parents. Ann Arbor […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwEOigT2GWM I really love this Huggies’ commercial because it shows a little girl professing she’s a big kid because she knows how to wear pull-ups which is the first step toward wearing big girl panties drawls. [Song in the tune of the Huggies’ commercial] So, she’s a big girl now. At this very moment, I […]

On the eve of the 2010 Kent Lecture I must admit that I am a bit nervous about the lecture. To give a little background, the Kent Lecture is in honor of Dr. George E. Kent, the first tenured Black professor at University of Chicago. In past year’s Dr. Cornel West, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, […]

From 8:00 AM to 3:04 PM, 5 days a week, I am a high school student, meaning that there are teachers, administrators and other faculty members all around who can tell me what to do. On top of being a student, I am also only a sophomore. And that means that not only are there […]

So, I watched President Barack Obama give his second State of the Union Address and felt totally dejected like a pimply teenage girl who’s searching find her identity. Yep, to say the least the speech did feel quite underwhelming and non-surprising . . . “we’re going to [fill in the blank with your best conception […]

When most people think of Christmas they usually envision images of an older, portly, White man in a hot, itchy red costume, encouraging children to sit on his lap while desperately trying to not look like a pedophile. Others may think of a grandmother getting trampled in Best Buy because she did not move fast […]

Today the Princess and the Frog opens across the nation. Of course, I’m going to go see the movie, however like most cynics I wrote a blog about the movie before it premiered approximately two months ago to  be exact. So, if my argument is proven wrong by actually seeing the film, I will write […]

“I’m going to die for the people because I’m going to live for the people.” They said, “Right on.” He said, “I’m going to live for the people because I love the people.” And they’d say, “Right on.” And he’d say, “I love the people, why?” And they’d say, “Because we’re high on the people, […]

  “Daddy come back!” “Daddy will you take me out for ice cream?” This is what one of my peers and I heard as we left the St. Martin de Porres House of Hope Saturday morning. Normally this question wouldn’t have disturbed me. However, the question was directed at two college sophomores who have yet […]

Journey in Black; Enlightening Pieces by 19 Women Explore Pivotal Moments Experienced by Females of Color Christopher A. Yates, The Columbus Dispatch, July 5, 2009 Number of Black Male Teachers Belies Their Influence Avis Thomas-Lester, The Washington Post, July 4, 2009 Club Owners Want to Take Golf to the Inner City Kareem Copeland, The Associated […]

There are two sides to every story. On one side you have a 14 year old girl, Tryna Middleton. An innocent girl who grew up a couple blocks from where my house is in East Cleveland, Ohio. Tryna Middleton attended Shaw High School, the same high school that I graduated from. A girl who literally […]

……………16……………. ………….black…………… ……….pregnant………… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFoDte6hh0 I got a chance to go back to one of my community high schools and perform poetry. One of the poems that I performed in the national poetry competition was about a women being barren. When performing this piece at the high school, one of the girls—no more than 16—started to […]